CRICKET ROUND-UP: Mildenhall clinch title, gain promotion

Liam Apicella

There was cause for double celebration at Mildenhall Cricket Club on Saturday evening after the first team wrapped up the Marshall Hatchick Two Counties Championship Division One title and in doing secured promotion.

With Norfolk champions Brooke and newly-crowned Cambridgeshire league winners Foxton having declined the chance to contest the Gibbs Denley East Anglian Premier League play-offs, Mildenhall went into their home clash with Hadleigh needing 13 points to seal glory.

They did just that thanks to a seven-wicket triumph at Wamil Way, which included bowling figures of 5-22 for Joe Reed, with Luke Youngs scoring a rapid unbeaten 79 runs in reply.

Due to the withdrawal of Brooke and Foxton, the play-offs have been cancelled for this year, meaning that Mildenhall will go up automatically.

Elsewhere, Halstead versus Worlington and Haverhill’s trip to Wivenhoe were both abandoned due to the wet weather.

In the Premier League, Woolpit are losing grip on their status after a seven-wicket defeat at the hands of Great Witchingham.

The loss has dropped Woolpit to the bottom of the standings with just one match left to play, which is against Horsford, who sit directly above the basement side with a gap of 23 points.

Horsford, meanwhile, overcame Sudbury by a 43-run margin to pick up the maximum 30 points.

Bury St Edmunds ensured they would remain in the top flight by drawing at home with Copdock, while Burwell drew away at Vauxhall Mallards.